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Point Bonita Light Station

Water

By windmill & surface force pump 3.5" suction x 10" stroke

poor

Sometimes qty is not ample

not liable

2 cisterns in which rain water is kept - 1 at keeper's house & 1 at old double house. Water is run by pipes from roofs to cisterns. Cisterns are cleaned annually & kept closed.

2 - 14,000 gal tanks near signal; 1 - 5,000 gal tank back of keeper's house; 2 cisterns - 1 about 14' dia. 8' deep; 1 - 13" dia 8' deep

redwood tanks, brick & cement cisterns

2 wells or cisterns under windmill 16 & 18' deep

1- 6'; 1 - 8'

1 brick, 1 concrete

Force pumping by windmill

1300' N; Water is seepage caught in ravine & run into wells by ditch & pipe

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